Hey, Glauber and I are going to start using git to manage the patches for the qemu package. The idea is that we'll use git's magical powers to make it easier for us to fix problems in patches, cherry-pick patches from upstream, re-base our patches to a newer upstream, etc.
Nothing is changing, really - patches should still go upstream first and we'll still include patches as individual files in the source RPM - this is purely about making managing those patches easier.
Here's the tree:
http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=qemu-fedora.git
It might be useful to others who want to help with back-porting fixes etc.
Cheers, Mark.
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 16:49 +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
Hey, Glauber and I are going to start using git to manage the patches for the qemu package. The idea is that we'll use git's magical powers to make it easier for us to fix problems in patches, cherry-pick patches from upstream, re-base our patches to a newer upstream, etc.
Nothing is changing, really - patches should still go upstream first and we'll still include patches as individual files in the source RPM - this is purely about making managing those patches easier.
Here's the tree:
http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=qemu-fedora.git
It might be useful to others who want to help with back-porting fixes etc.
I've just written up how to use it here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Maintaining_QEMU_patches
Cheers, Mark.
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Mark McLoughlin